Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration

Summary: Explore-by-Example introduces AIDE, an automatic IDE for exploration that steers users toward regions via sample feedback to predict queries. It delivers accurate conjunctive-query predictions with minimal user effort and fast iterations, cutting exploration time vs manual search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4895
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.6063803e-05
Overall Rank: 3,076 | 78.63%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610523

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,456	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011891284
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
3,542	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.9896948e-05
3,878	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.6669911e-05
4,635	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.0275975e-05
4,755	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9375171e-05
5,524	Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis	2020	SIGMOD	5.4589341e-05
6,235	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1386078e-05
6,403	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.0717043e-05
6,448	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.0532741e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
8,588	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.4853244e-05
9,469	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	4.3304872e-05
9,600	Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization	2024	SIGMOD	4.3136057e-05
9,695	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	4.298211e-05
10,378	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,586	Interactively Discovering and Ranking Desired Tuples without Writing SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,950	AIDE: An Automatic User Navigation System for Interactive Data Exploration	2015	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
709	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017740603
1,025	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014600179
1,151	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013634671
1,735	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010713691
1,830	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.0001037611
1,844	The Researcher’s Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB	0.00010339715
2,751	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1725194e-05
4,199	Meet Charles, big data query advisor	2013	CIDR	6.3618577e-05
6,888	AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations	2012	SIGMOD	4.8902106e-05

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